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Who would have thought it?
- Title
- Who would have thought it? / María Amparo Ruiz de Burton ; edited and introduced by Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita.
- Author
- Ruiz de Burton, María Amparo, 1832-1895.
- Publication
- Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press, 1995.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 00-14426 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- lxv, 298 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- On a trip out West in the mid-1800s, a New England doctor saves a Mexican girl from the Indians and adopts her. She meets only hostility in his hometown, until it is discovered she is wealthy, when she becomes everyone's favorite. A critique of opportunism and hypocrisy by a Mexican writer, wife of a U. S. Army officer and author of The Squatter and the Don. The novel is a reprint of the 1872 original.
- Series Statement
- Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project publication
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. lix-lxv).
- Call Number
- JFD 00-14426
- ISBN
- 1558850813 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 95011585
- OCLC
- 32167463
- Author
- Ruiz de Burton, María Amparo, 1832-1895.
- Title
- Who would have thought it? / María Amparo Ruiz de Burton ; edited and introduced by Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita.
- Imprint
- Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press, 1995.
- Series
- Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project publication
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. lix-lxv).
- Added Author
- Sánchez, Rosaura.Pita, Beatrice.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 00-14426